Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-03-04

laughter. But let us see the danger
that comes to US from inebriecy am ong
our foreign population.
The wholesale dealers in liquor are
estimated at sixty-five per cent. foreign
born, and the brewers seventy-fve per
cent. Let us take Philadelphia, that
old Quaker city, the City of Brotherly
Love, that city that seems to be par
excellence the city of the world. and
here are the figures: There were S,034
persons in the lum traffic, and who
we're they? Cinnamon, 2; Jews, 2;
Italians, Is; Spaniards, 140; Welsh,
l60; French, 285; Scotch, 497; English,
56S: Germans, 2179; Irish, 3,04l; Af-
ricans, 265; American, 205. suppose
we viii have to mix the Africans with
the Americans, and the total would be
40 Americans, an d then there were
persons of unknown nationality in the
rum traffic, 672; the sum total being
S,034. Of this number 1906 were
females, bue out of the 1906 all were
foreigners but one. There was one
American woman in the lum business,
and I blush for my country. Yet
there were l,l04 German women, and
2,54S Irish, and of the whole number
of the S,034 engaged in the liquor traf-
fic Of that city, Gals had been arrested
for some crime. Applause. We are
bound to look at these facts. Are we
a nation of foreign drunkards2
Then there is another danger-the
tendency of emigrant colonization. I
suppose it is known to you that New
Mexico is in the hands of foreigners
in the hands of the Catholic Church.
1t is also fact of Congressional report
that 0,557 900 acres Of land are in
the possession of twenty-nine alien cor
polations and individuals, an area
greater than the whole of Ireland.
would have no part Of this country
subject to any church. | would have
no foreign language taught in the pub
lie schools to the exclusion of or in
preference to the English language
! would have no laws published i'll a
foreign language, whether for the
French of Louisiana or the Germans
of Cincinnati. Loud applause. ]
would utter my solemn protest, and
that in the hearing of all politicians
especially those men who want to be
Presidents and cannot be Presidents
and those who hope to be ere long
1 would utter my solemn protest to-
day against what is known as the
"Irish vote" and the German vote.
Applause. We do not want any
foreign vote;'' Down with the poll
tician that would seek an '1rish vote.
or German VOTE" Great applause.
All we want here is an American vote
l would not vote for any man for Pres
ident who would stoop SO low as to bic
for the German vote or the Irish vote
Continued applause] The other safe
guard is an extension of the term O
residence required for naturalization
Some say make the term twenty-on,
years What is the term now? Fiv,
years I read from "Revised Statutes,
section 2165 and 2174, that perso1
applying for citizenship must be a resi-
dent of the United States at least fy,
years, and one year within the Stat,
or Territory wherein the application i
made, and that during that term &
wish I had all the judges here to day
and that during that term he is to Civ
satisfactory assurance to the court tha
he has behaved as man Of good mora
character, attached to the principles o
the Constitution of the United States
and well disposed to the good order ant
happiness of the same. GA man o
good moral character ~ what subIim
utterance, and how indefinite.
would be glad to know what judg
takes the pains, when hundred Q
these foreigners apply just on the ev
! of the election, that they may qualif
themselves to vote, what judge ir
quires whether they are men of goo
moral character Yet such is the pre-
vision of the law of the land. w
have assumed the authority to limi
suffrage. We say that womel
shall not vote, which is a great mis-
take. Sensation. You are not up t.
that. Laughter. My wife is as com
petent to vote as 1. On all mora
questions, especially the temperanc
| question, | would trust The womel
ten times before I would the men. I
is an abuse of the very genius of ou
Government to prescribe the Chinese
We say the negro may vote becaus
his skin is black. We say the Dutch
man, the Irishman, the Italian ma,
vote, because his skin ought to b
white, but the Chinese cannot vote be
cause his skin is yellow. The wore
"white' is used in the statute of limi
tation. We say to the young Ameri
can who graduates with the highes
honors at eighteen, you must wait three
years longer before you can stand with
the Irishman with his brogans and the
Teuton with his lager and vote for the
rulers of your native land. I would
have the term of naturalization exten
ded, some say till the foreigner has
been here t~enty-one years. Extend
the term to ten years, fifteen years
Say to all persons who come to this
country from foreign lands, that after
1890 they shall remain here fifteen
years to become indoctrinated in oul
free institutions, learn the seven attri
butes of the American citizen, and ther
be prepared to love America for Amer
ica's sake. Applause.
Thus protected we can look forward
to glorious. future, and the eye o.
prophecy can sweep the horizon of +:
deathless hope. Look forward to the
time when our place among the nations
shall be the umpire of the world
When England and Germany anc
France shall refer their internationa
questions to us for adjudication which
| otherwise would he adiusted on the fielt